Lots of change for Hyannis auto dealerships

Balise announces plans to move its three auto dealerships to new locations within town by August.

SARAH SHEMKUS

HYANNIS — Three of the village's car dealerships are on the move.

Balise Motor Sales Co. announced Friday that it will be reshuffling the locations of its Cape Cod Ford, Hyundai and Nissan dealerships.

"This will mean really significant upgrades in terms of capacity for service, capacity for parts, and customer experience," said Mike Balise, vice president of the auto group, which owns 20 new vehicle dealerships in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

The Hyundai dealership will be moving from its current location on Stevens Street to 556 Yarmouth Road, the lot previously occupied by Cape Cod Lincoln Mercury.

"It was definitely our most squalid dealership," Balise said. "That's going to get a great, great upgrade."

The auto group will be leasing the lot from Jim Langway, the former owner of the Lincoln Mercury dealership. The Hyundai move should be completed by Memorial Day, Balise said.

The property on North and Stevens streets that the Hyundai dealership is leaving should be fairly easy to sell or lease to another tenant, property owner Stuart Bornstein said.

"The location is superb and the availability for this type of location is extremely limited," he said. "We're not overly concerned."

Balise Ford, now on Route 28, will be moving to the former home of Puritan Pontiac Buick GMC on High School Road. Balise Motor Sales is leasing the property, which was sold to Hyannis Marina owner Wayne Kurker in 2009 for $2.5 million.

Balise Nissan, now located on North Street, will move onto the lot being vacated by the Ford dealership.

In 2008, the auto group bought two lots adjacent to the current Ford dealership for $1.5 million, according to Barnstable County Registry of Deeds records. Earlier this year, work began to expand the dealership onto that property.

All of the dealerships should be settled into their new locations by August, Balise said.

"We're working feverishly and we're pretty good at construction," he said.

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